Use Suggested Policies

PacketWise includes a set of suggested policies for many supported protocols and services. These policies were developed for a typical enterprise branch office and may or may not be suitable to your situation. You can apply a suggested policy to a traffic class, whether it was manually created or automatically created by the traffic discovery process. If the Automatic Policy feature is enabled, the suggested policies will automatically be applied to each traffic class that is discovered with autodiscovery. For information on enabling the Automatic Policy feature, see Reconfigure Basic Settings.

Note: All suggested rate policies set the guaranteed rate to zero with bursting enabled. If you have a specific minimum rate requirement for an application, such as Voice over IP, you will need to modify the suggested policy.

To perform this task from PolicyCenter, you must first select a group and/or unit configuration from the Group: and Unit: drop-down lists at the top of the page.

To create a policy using PacketWise's suggested settings:

1. Click the manage tab on the navigation bar. The Traffic Class window appears.

2. Select a class in the tree in the left window pane.

3. Click policy in the Traffic Class window and select add from the drop-down list.

4. Click suggest policy in the New Policy window.  show screen

A pop-up window appears, notifying you whether a default policy was found for this service type.  show screen

5. Click OK in the popup window.

6. To fine-tune the policy, overwrite the displayed values or select a new policy type.

7. To create the policy, click add policy in the New Policy window.

See also:

Protect Critical Application Performance